Something you hear from Democratic politicians and MSNBC hosts. "We know why Musk is cutting so much, it's to fund a huge tax cut for billionaires." They don't actually know that and I doubt it's true. Show me another example where Musk did anything to benefit anyone but himself? Why should he share the loot he's grabbing with other rich folk? What did they do to help? Nah I think it's all for him, with a taste going to the Trump and Putin families. He's going to use his new power to buy something else. The question is what? What else could he want? I imagine he wants all the money in the world not just the most. #- A note to designers of Bluesky as a platform.#
- I've been playing with adding metadata to posts in a thread. #
- As you can see the metadata, in the screen shot below, overwhelms the content in the post.#
- Wouldn't it be nice to have a set of templates to choose from, post types? Let designers be part of the platform.#
- Journalism is as usual writing news they could have written last year and should have if they weren't dreaming that somehow we'd escape End of Democracy 2.0. And we know how that turned out, about the same as Hillary's Emails. #
- Who is Elon Musk? Until I read his Wikipedia profile last week, I only had a vague idea. I wanted to know if he was actually raised in South Africa, when he left, and what influence it had on him. I'll let you read the article. We should be examining every nook and cranny of who this unelected guy who never was in a debate, or won a primary or an election, or had his background investigated, and remains untouched by any kind of examination. #
- His security detail was just deputized by the US Marshals Service. What next? Maybe they'll just give him control of the military and get on with it. You can see that's coming, maybe in March, or sooner. #
- Do you think he'd have any compunction against using the military against Americans? This isn't his country. So Americans probably mean nothing special to him. Since we played a role in the overthrow of their apartheid, probably the opposite. I wonder who or what he cares about. Has he ever answered a question without deflecting? Is there any reporter who could or would interview him? #
- If journalism were really doing their job seriously, they would report on this because this is what we're thinking. When will jouralism get that they are one of us, not above us? The sooner that light goes on, the better. #
- Here's a good story for one of fierce courageous reporters at the NY Times. Who should be more scared of what's coming? Blacks or Jews?#
- Can you imagine how livid developers of other AI platforms are that Musk gets exclusive access to all the private information stored in US government databases.#
- Imagine Bezos calling Trump.#
- "Hey I thought we were friends. I can send you another billion. 2 billion? 100 billion?" #
- "Call Elon, if he says it's OK I'll sign the order."#
- Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, Oracle, OpenAI, etc etc.#